Anna Magdalena Appel, later known as Freifrau von Hochstädten (Darmstadt, 8 March 1846-Wiesbaden, 19 December 1917) was a German ballet dancer, morganatic wife to Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse.

She developed her career as a ballet dancer at the Hoftheater in Darmstadt, her home town and capital of the Grand Duchy of Hesse.

[2][3][4] It was through the ballet that Anna Magdalena met Grand Duke Louis of Hesse, a great lover of the arts.

It was in the final moments of Louis III that the Grand-Ducal family came to know Anna Magdalena, out of necessity, because she did not want to be separated from her husband in his death throes.

[9]After the death of Louis III, Anna Magdalena moved her residence to the nearby town of Wiesbaden, located in the Kingdom of Prussia.